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My applications which are built using Laravel are deployed through Laravel Forge. There is definitely extra charge for it, but having Forge to simplify deployment really save my time especially in case of any issue.

For monitoring, I am using Stackdriver which has easy-to-use health check.

Not API, but Spark Java (http://sparkjava.com/documentation#getting-started) has one of the best Java framework documentation I've ever seen. Fairly concise + it has almost everything you need to build proper Web application using Java

I am glad that you have build an excellent business which can grow, unlike some businesses cough in a reality tv show cough. Keep up good job!

This is indeed a great initiative. As many people pointed out, we need to teach young kids for them to make sense of computer science and technology in general. What hinders them from learning this seemingly hard field is the fact that computer science is very abstract. So we have to let them know the connection between loop and data processing, variable and data storage etc. I really hope that this endeavor would do the exact thing. Good luck!

"please teach him something about database normalization"

I don't always find weekend project to be as fancy but this one is exception. Good job, I really like its simplicity!

(No one does this yet, so I wanna be the first one) Happy birthday debian!

Thanks, you just get me the exact term I'm looking for. It's hard to explain to "smart" people without using any computer-ish/science-ish/math-ish terminology

Regardless of how different Diaspora is from Facebook, they still tried to do the "social network" better. I'm pretty sure every startup wants to make stuff less suck.

By the way I remember last time when Diaspora first surfaced as the real alternative of Facebook and I was kinda excited with it. For the first time I can customized everything I want from my social network. But then the project run out of any traction and suddenly just disappeared. So I guess, while we can dream big and aim big, the big stuff would come up eventually and not just boom in the first place (as Google comes out from home garage and Facebook comes out from college dorm). It's a big disturbing how App.net just really booming in its first release but I wish them the best and hope they will succeed.

I think they are delegating the task to app.net

I think the size and complexity of the program is the reason why we need to think first before we look at the code. I'll probably look at the obvious indicators (logs, stacktrace etc) and then the "thinking" could begin. Obviously with a huge program there are more probability for the local fix to happen because there are so many moving parts

Yup, they don't have to be big. Then what's the point of developers to develop on top of app.net API while their user base is small? Less revenue, more "freedom" to develop?

It is the hype that has changed everything.

Exactly. People would consider a mobile apps outside 99 cents mark as expensive, even more so if it costs you $50

To be honest, I actually agree with your points, which is exactly what I've been thinking too. Unfortunately the tone of this post would definitely put some bad image to people outside the app.net circle.

This app.net might not be a nightly success, but what IF (yup, a big if) it succeeds in a long run? At that time people would remember dalton as the savior and YOU as the biggest jerk.

Anyway, fuckyoudalton can refer to anyone. I mean, are you referring to Andy Dalton?

No, there is a lot of better ways to inform the designer about his mistakes than just ranting about them.

I thought i was the only one. I'm just so excited to see this ancient site got surfaced again.

(I'm saying this from a regular user's perspective and not developer): First of all, what's boggling my mind about this app.net thingy is the vague pitch and description. They should explain themselves first as "a paid social network where users own their own data and without any ad disturbance". Then they can elaborate more stuff. I really had hard time to comprehend the importance of this yet-another-social network and spent a lot of time reading others' people blog/HN posts just to understand what it is all about.

Secondly, I see why they charge for it for access; I mean, we are customers when we pay for it. I get it. However, I still don't think people are willing to pay for it. Social network will forever (well may be not, but we'll see) be free because when the stuff is free, we can be sure that we can allure our close friends, relatives, or whoever in our circles to join the social network, thus the social network itself. Even more so when regular users are pretty content with the existing free social networks we have. If there are less users in a social network, the less motivation any developer to develop application on its platform.

That link should be https://makr.io/pro_tips. But thanks though, thats awesome of you

I was a skeptic before, and the first time i went into the site I realize "Man, why pinterest cant be this fun?"

Out of curiosity: Even if they discover higgs boson, is there any chance for standard model to be changed again later on? (when somehow we discover yet another component)

TIL: startups = mobile app + real-time + cloud + social + local

Are you saying they 'accidentally' scammed him? Wow